MBC2025 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| coding | the assignment of numeric or alphanumeric digits and characters to specific diagnostic and procedural phrases |
| The World Health Organization (WHO) | in 1948, assumed responsibility for preparing and publishing the revisions to the ICD every 10 years. Thus, with every 10-year revision, the name of the current ICD changes. |
| An abbreviation for the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification | ICD-10-CM |
| ICD-10-CM | an arrangement of classes or groups of diagnoses by systematic division that is used in the United States |
| mortality | the rate or frequency of deaths |
| morbidity | the rate or frequency of disease |
| National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) | in the United States, is responsible for maintaining the ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes. |
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | responsible for maintaining the procedure codes of ICD-10-PCS. |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) | passed by Congress in 1996 to improve the portability and continuity of health care coverage |
| Administrative Simplification | developed standards for the electronic exchange of health care data by administrative and financial transactions |
| The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) | represents health information professionals who manage, organize, process, and manipulate patient data. |
| The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) | was founded to elevate the standards of medical coding. |
| The Certified Professional Coder (CPC) certification | validates a coder’s proficiency in the physician office setting |
| the Certified Inpatient Coder, (CIC) certification | validates proficiency in the inpatient hospital setting |
| Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) certification | validates coding proficiency in outpatient hospital and outpatient facility coding. |
| Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC) certification | validates that a coder can read a medical chart and assign the correct diagnosis (ICD-10-CM) codes for a wide variety of clinical cases and services for risk adjustment models. |
| The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries | an alphanumerical list of codes, commonly referred to as the Tabular. |
| divided into chapters based on body system (anatomical site) or condition (etiology) | The Tabular List |
| Conventions | instructional notes, punctuation marks, abbreviations, and symbols |
| Instructional notes | appear in both the Tabular List and Alphabetic Index of ICD-10-CM. |
| Includes note | used to define, give examples, or both, of the content of a category of ICD-10-CM or of a block of category codes. |
| Excludes notes | used to signify that the conditions listed are not assigned to the category or block of category codes. |
| How many types of Excludes Notes are there? | Two |
| Excludes1 note | easy to understand and apply. |
| Excludes2 note | used to signify that the diagnostic terms listed after the note are not part of the condition(s) represented by the code or code block. |
| See note | used in the Alphabetic Index of ICD-10-CM and instructs the coder to cross-reference the term or diagnosis that follows the notation. |
| See Also note | refers the coder to another location in the Alphabetic Index when the initial listing does not contain all the necessary information to accurately select a code. |
| Code First note | instructs the coder to select a code to represent the etiology that caused the manifestation. |
| Use Additional Code note | instructs the coder to use an additional code to identify the manifestation that is present. |
| In Diseases Classified Elsewhere Note | applies to the etiology/manifestation conventions. |
| Code Also note | is used in ICD-10-CM to instruct the coder that two codes may be needed to fully code a diagnostic phrase. |
| The terms found within the parentheses are referred to as | nonessential modifiers. |
| Parentheses | are used in both the Tabular List and Alphabetic Index. Parentheses are used around terms that provide additional information about the main diagnostic term. |
| Brackets | are used in the Tabular Listing and in the Alphabetic Index. |
| A colon | is used in the Tabular listing after a term that is modified by one or more of the terms following the colon |
| What does NEC stand for? | not elsewhere classifiable |
| What does NOS Stand for? | not otherwise specified. |
| The point dash symbol (.–) | tells the coder that the code contains a list of options at a level of specificity past the three-character category. |
| Granularity | the level of detail. |
| Laterality | for bilateral sites ICD-10-CM indicates the specific site. |
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